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TIL that Russell-Whitehead spent 300 pages in their seminal work Principia Mathematica proving that 1+1=2.

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b9P69 TIL that between 1968-99, Black, Latinx, and Asian American UC students led multiple strikes on campus to demand ethnic studies courses, fair admission practices, and scholarships for POCs.
XExpr TIL about Roy Cleveland Sullivan also called Human lightning Rod ,a park ranger(at Virginia) who was hit by lightning SEVEN times and he survived ALL of them.The odds of getting hit by lightning is 1 out of 13,500.He commited suicide at the age of 71 by gunshot.
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